Summer Sonic Festival

"Sonicmania" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Sonic Mania.

The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-day rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and Chiba. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Chiba the following day and vice versa. The line-up contains many Japanese rock musicians from both major and indie record companies, and also international acts. It also operates the festival Sonicmania, with an EDM focus, since 2011. Summer Sonic is an independent festival, owned by Creativeman Productions Ltd.

The EDM section of the festival was later split into Sonicmania which is held at Makurai Messe the day before the festival, which according to Time Out, "Held as a warm-up for Summer Sonic each year, the all-night Sonicmania party caters to dance kids who aren't so well served by the main festival itself"[1] in 2011.[2]